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Monica_BIC @monica-bic.bsky.social · Apr 14

Finally out!, after a few months of delay, our protocol on ExM in plant roots is now available in The Plant Cell
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Beautiful images in a great collaboration of the @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social with @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social and Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social

Root expansion microscopy: A robust method for super resolution imaging in Arabidopsis

Root expansion microscopy (ROOT-ExM) achieves super-resolution expansion microscopy in plants.

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Physghoul 👻 @physgal.bsky.social · 1d

🎢 ⚛️ 🔭

admirablewomen.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2d

#OTD in 2020, Andrea Ghez won the Nobel Prize in Physics for “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object [now generally recognized to be a black hole] at the center of our galaxy.”

Dr. Ghez is an astrophysicist & professor UCLA. #WomenInSTEM

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Monica_BIC @monica-bic.bsky.social · 4d

For once, proud of a country

Decenas de miles de personas salen a la calle en Barcelona en la primera de las protestas propalestinas convocadas el fin de semana - elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Última hora de las manifestaciones en apoyo al pueblo palestino y la flotilla de Gaza, en directo | La Guardia Urbana cifra en 50.000 los asistentes a la protesta en Barcelona

En Madrid la manifestación está convocada para las seis de la tarde en Atocha

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GdR ImaBio @gdrimabio.bsky.social · 5d

🔬For 22 years, we have been organizing #Mifobio "Functional Microscopy for Biology" the @cnrs.fr thematic school.

🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects.

👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr

#GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025

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Merja Joensuu @joensuulab.bsky.social · 7d

🌟 Thrilled to share that my lab’s first publication is now out in @natmetabolism.nature.com. Congrats to the team 🎉

🧠 We discovered that neurons use endogenous fatty acids as an energy fuel, challenging long-standing models of sugars being the exclusive energy source for neurons. 1/3

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · 9d

The ExM gang @jvermot.bsky.social @mahjoublab.bsky.social @marinelap.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @simonemortal.bsky.social et al #GEF25

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Adam Glaser @adamkglaser.bsky.social · 9d

Latest imaging data from our completely re-designed ExA-SPIM system.

Expansion-assisted imaging (3X expansion, 0.3 NA) enables brain-wide imaging with high-contrast and <400 nm effective resolution.

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 10d

Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

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Monica_BIC @monica-bic.bsky.social · 11d

I’ll be watching you!!!

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 16d

Huntingtin protein bound to actin filaments. I didn’t know it could do that! Nice one @schurlab.bsky.social and friends! 🧪🧶🧬 #TeamTomo

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 16d

Cryo-ET visualization of HTT bound to F-actin, highlighted in the yellow square on the left.
On the right, a detailed zoom-in view of the molecular model of the HTT/F-actin complex is shown.

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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 27d

Anyone interested in getting my job?

Do not hesitate to apply, it's a pretty good gig

Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 28d

Come and work with us 5-year position available for a University Researcher in Bioimaging 1.11.2025-31.12.2030

abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

University Researcher in Bioimaging / Universitetsforskare med inriktning bioimaging, 1.11.2025-31.12.2030

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17d

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 18d

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins
There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

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Public Health Scotland @publichealthscot.bsky.social · Aug 7

💙 Our new findings show that babies younger than 3 months, whose mothers received the maternal RSV vaccination, were 80% less likely to end up in hospital than those whose mums hadn’t been vaccinated.

Find out more 🔽
publichealthscotland.scot/news/2025/au...

#VaccinesWork

A pregnant woman sitting, holding her left sleeve up to show her arm while a nurse administers the RSV vaccine.

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Monica_BIC @monica-bic.bsky.social · 20d

#ExM rocks!!!

NanoTag Biotechnologies @nanotag.bsky.social · 21d

#ExM turned 10 this year - just like #NanoTag! 🎉
Join us & the super-resolution community in Göttingen for the ExM Forum! 🔬Hear from our founder Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social and CSO Steffen Frey on how NanoTag’s sdAb solutions empower nanoscopy & #multiplex imaging.

See you in Göttingen!
#GEF25

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 23d

I don't know that it works perfectly, but I have to say that the Asta search tool from @ai2.bsky.social is exactly what I want from an AI-powered research search tool for scientists: Describe a style of experiment or work and see if there are papers that have done that.
asta.allen.ai/chat

Ai2 Asta

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Ⳙⲛ ⲏⳙⲙⳕⳑ𝖽ⲉ ⳏⲁⳏⲁ⳨ⲅⳕⲧⲁ 🍉🇵🇸😢💔 @yoxirli.bsky.social · 24d

Nazis con porra

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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 24d

Esta es la brutalidad policial de este matón con placa contra mujeres madrileñas indefensas que se manifestaban hoy en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina.

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 24d

"La Vuelta interrumpida en su última etapa, las calles de Madrid atestadas de policía tomada por voces que no aceptan el silencio sobre Gaza. Un recordatorio brutal de que el espectáculo no siempre puede continuar", por Manuel Jabois social.elpais.com/frgh44

La Vuelta y la hora decisiva en la Gran Vía

Lo que debía ser un escaparate global del ciclismo acabó convertido en un escenario incómodo para Europa y para España por lo que tiene de golpe a las conciencias

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Spirochrome @spirochrome.com · 28d

HAK-actin™ was developed in the labs of @centriolelab.bsky.social and @dudinlab.bsky.social.

Find out more about HAK-actin™ in the BioRxiv manuscript: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are grateful to @dudinlab.bsky.social for providing the creolimax frangantissima data used in the movie

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Monica_BIC @monica-bic.bsky.social · Sep 8

What a asshole…

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Sep 5

Scientists present an advanced new technique for live-imaging regenerating limbs, shown here on a sand flea.
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IMAG'IC @imag-ic.bsky.social · Aug 29

#FluorescenceFriday After a wonderful summer at the beach, what could be better than discovering a new microscope on the facility to keep your spirits high?
Just a few more days until you can image your #organoids cleared or in vivo!
#SPIM
@institutcochin.bsky.social
@france-bioimaging.bsky.social

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Luc Reym⌬nd @lreymond.bsky.social · Aug 28

New preprint online!

So much fun working on this project, thank you @centriolelab.bsky.social and @dudinlab.bsky.social for embarking me on this one!

Hopefully HAK-actin will become your best companion for actin staining U-ExM expanded samples.

Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Soon at @spirochrome.com
Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 9

Drawing the mind, one neuron at a time: A 2022 book walks readers through the life and work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spaniard whom many consider the founder of modern #neuroscience.

Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #BookLoversDay: scim.ag/3RvHDmQ

Cajal’s rendering of a Purkinje neuron found in the human cerebellum captures the beauty and intricacy of this complex cell.

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Monica_BIC @monica-bic.bsky.social · Aug 26

OMG, they did it!!!

Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · Aug 26

YO, what's up with all these almost-witchcraft techniques?? In this paper, they develop a way to freeze cells so quickly that it preserves Calcium waves midway!! WHAT??? HELLO??? So now you can do 3D reconstruction of calcium waves with just a normal confocal. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Monica_BIC @monica-bic.bsky.social · Aug 22

We are doing now expansión microscopy on human brain, give it a try!